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School: Páirc na Coille

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Woodfield, Co. Roscommon
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Énrí Ó Maolagáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0233, Page 332

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    as cabbage is nowadays. Very seldom the people eat any of those vegetables.
    Christmas night and on marriage occasions tea was given as special food. They did not know how to make tea at first. They used to boil about a pound of tea in water and they took the tea leaves with sugar. On Easter Sunday they eat eggs, and this old custom is still kept. Noggins were used as drinking vessels before cups became common.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. products
      1. food products (~3,601)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Eileen Leyland
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Crossna, Co. Roscommon
    Informant
    Thomas Leyland
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Crossna, Co. Roscommon